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ToonTones
a color memory game

Five shades pulled from pop-culture icons. You see each one once, then it's gone - no swatches, no shortcuts, just three sliders and whatever your eyes remember.

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Find the exact shade
Mix it. Match it.
Lock it in.
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That's a wrap.

Here's your color-accuracy report

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What ToonTones actually tests

Most color games hand you a row of swatches and ask you to pick the right one. ToonTones doesn't. You get one look at a shade, it disappears, and you have to reconstruct it yourself with three sliders - hue, saturation and lightness. That small change turns a guessing game into a genuine color memory test: you're not recognizing a color, you're recalling it.

Each round scores your mix against the real shade on a 0–10 scale using a perceptual color-difference model, so a near-miss still counts for something and a wild guess doesn't. Play five rounds, get an average, and see where your color memory actually stands - no account, no download, nothing leaves your browser.

How a round works

Step 1

Study the shade

A full-screen color fills the card with a playful pop-culture clue. Take it in - you won't get a second look once you start mixing.

Step 2

Rebuild it from memory

Drag the H, S and L sliders until your swatch matches what you remember seeing. There's nothing to click and pick - you have to build it.

Step 3

Lock it in

Confirm your guess to reveal your accuracy score out of 10, then move to the next shade. Five rounds, one average score.

Classic, Daily and challenge links

Classic mode reshuffles the palette every time, so you can replay as often as you like. Daily mode gives everyone the same five shades for the day, which makes it fair to compare notes with other players. After any round, you can generate a challenge link that hands a friend the exact same five shades and your score to beat.

Who this is for

Designers and photographers use it as a quick warm-up for their eye. Everyone else just plays it because matching a color from memory turns out to be a lot harder - and more satisfying - than it sounds. Call it a color memory game, a color recall test, or a shade-matching game; the goal never changes: get as close as your eyes can manage.

Frequently asked questions

A free browser color memory game. You look at a target shade, it disappears, and you rebuild it from memory using hue, saturation and lightness sliders, with each round scored 0 to 10.

Study the shade on the card, then adjust the H, S and L sliders until your mix matches what you remember, and lock it in. A full round has five shades.

H (hue) is the color family - red, teal, violet. S (saturation) is how vivid or washed-out it looks. L (lightness) is how close to white or black the shade sits.

ToonTones measures the visual distance between your mix and the target with a perceptual color-difference formula, then converts that into a 0–10 score, where 10 is a near-perfect match.

No. Your scores and leaderboard entries stay in your browser's local storage only. Nothing uploads, and clearing site data resets everything.

Yes - after a round, generate a challenge link. Anyone who opens it plays the same five shades and finds out if they beat your score.